Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Dodger

Dodger

Shield against rain or spray on a ship's bridge.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
Improve it
More
Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

More

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Related terms

dodger
Boat; General boating

A hood forward of a hatch or cockpit to protect the crew from wind and spray. Can be soft or hard.

dodger
Transportation; Boats & ships

Shield against rain or spray on a ship's bridge.

dodger
Language; Dictionaries

One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.

The Artful Dodger
Language; Encyclopedias

A young expert in theft and other villanies in Dickens's "Oliver Twist."

Artful Dodger
Language; Encyclopedias

A young thief, an expert in the profession in Dickens' "Oliver Twist."

coffin-dodger
Language; Slang

A heavy smoker. * I just hate these damn coffindodgers who light up a cigarette in a restaurant! * Coffin-dodgers, chainsmokers— who cares? Let ’em commit suicide— in the privacy ...

range
Transportation; Boats &ships

Distance a boat can travel at cruising speed on a tank of fuel. Also, the distance to an object. Lastly, in intracoastal navigation, a set of two markers that, when lined up one ...

variation
Transportation; Boats &ships

Compass variable that accounts for the difference in degrees between true north and magnetic north.

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L
  • 0

    Terms

  • 0

    Blossaries

  • 1

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Computer Category: Computer science

Chinese room

A thought experiment developed by John Searle. It attempts to show that computers cannot 'understand' things in the same way that humans do, instead, ...

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Christmas Song

Category: Entertainment   1 3 Terms

Arabic Dialects

Category: Languages   2 3 Terms

Browers Terms By Category

TERMS

SOCIAL

EXTRAS

SOLUTIONS